Write for us
Bring evidence, keep the byline
The blog runs analysis about models, agents, evaluation and the cost of running any of it. Outside writing is welcome on one condition: every claim in it has to be checkable.
What gets published
Five kinds of piece
The unifying thread is measurement. If a draft's central claim cannot be checked by a reader with the same tools, it belongs somewhere else.
Comparisons with the working shown
Two or more models put through the same task, with the prompts, the scoring rule and the raw results included. The conclusion matters less than whether a reader could run it again and get the same answer.
First-hand evaluation
What a model does on a workload that is actually yours — a migration, a support queue, a codebase of a particular shape. Sample size of one is fine when it is described honestly as one.
Cost analysis
Real bills against real throughput: where token counts came from, what caching did to them, where a list price stopped predicting the invoice. This is the most under-written subject in the field.
Implementation walkthroughs
Getting an agent, an eval harness or a serving stack into production, with the parts that broke left in. Working code, versions pinned, no half-finished repository at the end of the link.
Argument about measurement
A case that a benchmark is saturated, gamed, or measuring something other than what its name suggests — including arguments against how this site aggregates its own indices.
What does not
Declined without a second read
Stated plainly because most of the mail this page attracts is one of the following, and a clear list saves everyone the exchange.
- Sponsored posts, paid placements and link insertions. There is no rate card because there is nothing on sale.
- Pitches whose real subject is a backlink — a thin article built around one anchor text to a client's site.
- Generated filler. A draft written by a model and unedited reads exactly like a draft written by a model, and it will be declined.
- Press releases, funding announcements and product launches restyled as analysis.
- Ranked listicles with no measurement behind the ranking.
- Anything already published elsewhere, including on your own blog or a company site.
On links
One link to your own site or profile goes in the author bio, as a matter of course. Links inside the body are for sources and for things a reader would want to open next — a paper, a repository, a pricing page. A link that serves the writer rather than the reader gets cut in editing, and a draft built around one gets declined.
If you work for, are paid by, or hold equity in a company named in the piece, say so in the pitch. A disclosed interest is publishable; a discovered one is not.
Process
From pitch to published
01
Send the argument, not the article
Three or four sentences: what you claim, what evidence you have, and why a reader who follows this field already would still learn something. Add a link to anything you have written before — a repository or an internal doc you can share counts.
02
We answer either way
If it fits, you get an outline agreed in writing first: the claim, the evidence, the rough length, and any figures we would want sourced. Nobody should write a full draft on spec.
03
Draft, then edit
Expect edits for accuracy and house style, and expect questions about any number that arrives without a source. Substantive changes come back to you before anything is published.
04
Publish
The piece goes out under your byline, with your bio and photo attached, and is filed into the category it belongs to. Corrections after publication are made openly rather than quietly.
House rules for the draft
- Every figure carries a source link and the date you saw it. Prices and benchmark results move, and an undated number cannot be checked later.
- State the method before the result: which version of the model, which provider, which settings, how many runs.
- Report what failed. A piece that only contains successes is an advertisement.
- Charts need their underlying numbers supplied alongside them, so a reader can see the table under the picture.
- Write in your own voice. Drafting with a model is your business; publishing its output unedited is ours.
Practical details
- Length follows the argument — most pieces land between 1,200 and 2,500 words. Short and dense beats long and padded.
- Send Markdown or a shared document. Images as separate files, at the size you captured them.
- Rates, where there are any, are agreed before you start writing. Ask in the pitch.
- You keep the copyright and grant us the right to publish and edit the piece — the detail is in the contributions clause of the terms.
Send the pitch
Subject line “Pitch”, four sentences, one link to previous work. Every pitch gets an answer, including the ones that are declined.